About Me

By training, I'm an attorney with an interest in constitutional law, immigration law and international law. My hobbies include sewing (I'm a seamstress and can usually be found sewing costumes for myself or my friends.), genealogy research (I love researching my family and can do it for hours online.), reading (usually trash but recently some non fiction legal books). And I'm a Christian, well my own version of one.

Quickie zebra print, elastic waist skirt for a concert that got
cancelled. Guess I'll just stash it away for the next show. (purchased
fabric, finished by March 1)

Chemise, petticoat and additional ruffled panel for the petticoat of my pink and white steampunk underwear ensemble. (finished by March 12; purchased fabric and quilt binding for the waistband, stash lace and twill tape and some other fabric) Corset (finished by March 19. Pretty much all stash, except I bought one thing of embroidery floss.)

Finally make the Alison swimsuit from BurdaStyle that I downloaded a while ago.

1884 Wash Overskirt from Truly Victorian.

A Natural Form Victorian dress. I've been looking at patterns on Truly Victorian, but haven't decided on what I want to do yet.

An 18th century costume, starting with the stays.

A Regency outfit, probably a dress and spencer, based off of Simplicity 4055

Of these, I've pretty much done nothing. I did start the lobster tail, but I haven't finished it.

Updated to do list:

Lobster tail bustle from American Duchess' tutorial - deadline April 26 for the Steampunk Empire Symposium.

Pink and white underwear set - deadline
March 25 (for the Historical Sew Fortnightly challenge). If you're a regular reader, you know that the chemise and petticoat are finished and the corset just needs the lace trim sewn on and laces. If anyone has a source for white or pink boot laces, let me know!

18th
Century pockets - deadline April 9 (for the Historical Sew Fortnightly
challenge) These should be pretty easy, unless I decide to embroider
them (which I probably should...)

A 20s inspired dress to go see The Great Gatsby in - deadline: May 20

A plethora of new work clothes (since I am soooo tired of what I have to wear now):

Pants out of comic print fabric. Already started on construction! Old UFO, it'll be good to get these made.

Black corduroy pencil skirt trimmed in floral corduroy. As a bonus, I could wear this with my floral corduroy jacket. This is a UFO, already cut out and pinned for construction to start.

Asymmetrical wrap skirt made from a taupe suiting. Another already cut out UFO, pinned for construction. I'm a bit nervous about this one actually, the fabric is some kind of weave that doesn't seem super stable...

Turning a dress into a skirt. All I need to do is put on a waistband of some sort. Right now I'm thinking white satin ribbon that ties in the back.

Corset flossing, day one or two. Its a learning process, as you can tell.

Corset flossing, halfway through the process

Corset flossing complete, time to start putting in the eyelets!

Eyelets complete, only thing left is to trim it out in some pink lace that matches the chemise and petticoat perfectly.

Next, I started putting together the comic pants! I decided to ditch the center front fly zipper for a simple side zip. I was also worried fit (since the pants were cut out about ten years ago) so I did a 3/8 inch seam. I may go ahead and take it in to a 5/8, but I'm okay with the current fit. Next is adding the waistband, putting in the zipper and hemming them. And then I'll have a new pair of pants!

Monday, March 11, 2013

First of all, check out my Instagram for lots of inprogress photos of current projects! My username is midnyghtsnow

Now, despite being sick last week (I caught some 24 hour stomach flu that I'm STILL recovering from), I managed to get quite a bit done.

1. The ruffled panel and the petticoat for my pink and white steampunk underwear are DONE. All that's left now is the corset...

2. Which I have worked on, a lot. It's put together, boned, and I finished the binding yesterday. Next up is the eyelets (once I fix a little problem - I didn't really leave room for said eyelets where they should go...) and then the flossing and probably the trimming. Contemplating trimming it out in pink lace that I have that is pretty much the exact some shade of pink to match the chemise and petticoat.

3. I also pulled out a few UFOs and some stash fabric to work on making some new clothes for work. In the picture above, you can see a pencil skirt pattern (I'm working on a black corduroy trimmed in floral corduroy version, and I may be making one out of the narrow stripe in the picture as well), another skirt pattern that is cut out of a taupe suiting, a dress that I made years ago that never fit (I cut the top and skirt apart, gonna add a waistband to the skirt and maybe repurpose the bodice as well), another dress pattern that was cut out of purple cotton, and a pair of pants out of the coolest fabric -- comic print. I also have some turquoise corduroy that I want to make a skirt out of and a white and black silky material that I think wants to be a blouse...